[From: Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1988.]
The row does not have to be straight. It can be crooked or curved. Unit forms can display a change of direction regularly within the row if desired.
Four-way Continuance
When rows of unit or superunit forms are repeated [see repetition], four-way continuance is achieved.
Compositions with four-way continuance create a patternlike design. If a space is not completely filled, the composition becomes less formal.
Six-way Continuance
A structural grid can comprise triangles to guide the placement of unit forms [see Repetition]. This produces a six-way continuance, with shapes grouped as triangles or hexagons. If each unit form consists of a head and a tail, it is interesting to observe that the heads will meet at one point and the tails will meet at another point, in an alternating manner.
[Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1988.]
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